Extra Points: Lower limbs

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 髋骨 (kuān gǔ)

🎯 Location: A pair of the points 2 thumb widths superior to the patella and 1.5 thumb widths lateral and medial to the ➞ st-34 (liangqiu)..

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in hip disorders.

🛡️ Treats: arthritis:rheumatoid, pain:hip, stroke, pain:back:inferior, pain:intestine

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 髋骨 (kuān gǔ)

🎯 Location: A pair of the points 2 thumb widths superior to the patella and 1.5 thumb widths lateral and medial to the ➞ st-34 (liangqiu)..

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in hip disorders.

🛡️ Treats: arthritis:rheumatoid, pain:hip, stroke, pain:back:inferior, pain:intestine

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 鶴頂 (hè dǐng)

🎯 Location: In the depression the at the midpoint of the superior border of the patella.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: pain:knee, stagnation:qi, stagnation:blood, wind, swelling

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 百蟲窩 (bǎi chóng wō)

🎯 Location: 3 thumb widths proximal to the medial superior border of the patella, in the a tender depression on the bulge of the vastus medialis muscle, 1 thumb width proximal to the xuehai sp-10.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: wind, damp, heat:blood, wind:rash, itchiness:skin

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 腦清 (nǎo qīng)

🎯 Location: 2 thumb widths proximal to the st41, in the line connecting st36 and st41..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: disorder:psychological:confusion, memory:poor, calm:mind, vertigo, lassitude

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 膝眼 / 内膝眼 (xī yǎn / nèi xī yǎn)

🎯 Location: In the depression on the both sides of the patellar ligament when the knee is flexed.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in acute knee injuries.

🛡️ Treats: swelling, pain, atrophy:leg, qi:leg, numbness:leg

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 膝眼 / 内膝眼 (xī yǎn / nèi xī yǎn)

🎯 Location: In the depression on the both sides of the patellar ligament when the knee is flexed.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in acute knee injuries.

🛡️ Treats: swelling, pain, atrophy:leg, qi:leg, numbness:leg

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 膽囊穴 (dǎn náng xué)

🎯 Location: Between 1 & 2 thumb widths distal to the yanglingquan gb-34 on the right leg. palpate to the find the area of the maximum tenderness.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in acute cholecystitis.

🛡️ Treats: heat, damp, pain:costal:lateral, distension:costal:lateral, numbness:leg

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 闌尾 (lán wěi)

🎯 Location: Approximately 2 thumb widths distal to the zusanli st-36 on the right leg.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in acute appendicitis.

🛡️ Treats: stagnation:qi, appendicitis, benefit:digestion, paralysis:leg, appendicitis:acute

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 内踝尖 (nèi huái jiān)

🎯 Location: On the highest point of the medial malleolus..

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in acute ankle injuries.

🛡️ Treats: heat, pain:toothache, pain:throat:soreness, benefit:collaterals, spasm:leg:medial

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 外踝尖 (wài huái jiān)

🎯 Location: On the protrusion of the external malleolus..

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in acute ankle injuries.

🛡️ Treats: heat, stroke, hemiplegia, pain:toothache, tonsillitis

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 八風 (bā fēng)

🎯 Location: On the dorsum of the foot, between the toes, 0.5 thumb widths proximal to the margin of the web. these points include xingjian liv-2, neiting st-44 & xiaxi gb-43.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: heat, redness, swelling, malaria, pain:headache

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 八風 (bā fēng)

🎯 Location: On the dorsum of the foot, between the toes, 0.5 thumb widths proximal to the margin of the web. these points include xingjian liv-2, neiting st-44 & xiaxi gb-44.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: heat, redness, swelling, malaria, pain:headache

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 八風 (bā fēng)

🎯 Location: On the dorsum of the foot, between the toes, 0.5 thumb widths proximal to the margin of the web. these points include xingjian liv-2, neiting st-44 & xiaxi gb-45.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: heat, redness, swelling, malaria, pain:headache

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 八風 (bā fēng)

🎯 Location: On the dorsum of the foot, between the toes, 0.5 thumb widths proximal to the margin of the web. these points include xingjian liv-2, neiting st-44 & xiaxi gb-46.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: heat, redness, swelling, malaria, pain:headache

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 八風 (bā fēng)

🎯 Location: On the dorsum of the foot, between the toes, 0.5 thumb widths proximal to the margin of the web. these points include xingjian liv-2, neiting st-44 & xiaxi gb-47.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: heat, redness, swelling, malaria, pain:headache

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 八風 (bā fēng)

🎯 Location: On the dorsum of the foot, between the toes, 0.5 thumb widths proximal to the margin of the web. these points include xingjian liv-2, neiting st-44 & xiaxi gb-48.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: heat, redness, swelling, malaria, pain:headache

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 八風 (bā fēng)

🎯 Location: On the dorsum of the foot, between the toes, 0.5 thumb widths proximal to the margin of the web. these points include xingjian liv-2, neiting st-44 & xiaxi gb-49.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: heat, redness, swelling, malaria, pain:headache

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 八風 (bā fēng)

🎯 Location: On the dorsum of the foot, between the toes, 0.5 thumb widths proximal to the margin of the web. these points include xingjian liv-2, neiting st-44 & xiaxi gb-50.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: heat, redness, swelling, malaria, pain:headache

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 獨陰 (dú yīn)

🎯 Location: On the plantar side of the 2nd toe, at the centre of the distal interphalangeal joint.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: pain:chest, vomiting, pain:epigastrium, retention:placenta, rebellion:qi

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 气端 (qì duān)

🎯 Location: Ten points at the tips of the 10 toes, 0.1 thumb width from the free margin of the each toenail.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: heat, pain:foot:dorsum, open:orifice, corns, numbness:toe

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 環中 (huán zhōng)

🎯 Location: On the posterio-superior aspect of the buttock, at the midpoint of the line connecting the prominence of the great the trochanter and the sacral hiatus.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: damp, prolapse:uterus, sciatica, benefit:collaterals

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 環上 (huán shàng)

🎯 Location: 0.5 thumb widths superior and lateral to the huanzhong (ex-le-13), which is at the midpoint of the line connecting the prominence of the great the trochanter and the hiatus of the sacrum.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: damp, prolapse:uterus, sciatica, benefit:collaterals

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 環中啥 (huán zhōng shá)

🎯 Location: 2 thumb widths above the and 0.5 thumb widths lateral to the midpoint of the line connecting the end of the coccyx and the pertrochantery.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: damp, sciatica, benefit:collaterals

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 通脉 (tōng mài)

🎯 Location: On the supero-bacterior aspect of the buttock, at the crossing point of the line perpendicular down from baihuanshu (bl30) and horizontal from huanzhong (ex-le-13).

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: benefit:qi, benefit:yang, benefit:blood, thromboangitis obliterans:early

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 中平 (zhōng píng)

🎯 Location: On the leg, 1 thumb width below zusanli (st36).

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: benefit:collaterals, benefit:tendon / ligament, immobility:shoulder:frozen, arthritis:shoulder:scapulohumeral periarthritis

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 太肩 (tài jiān)

🎯 Location: On the leg, 0.8 directly below yinglingquan (sp9).

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in acute shoulder injury.

🛡️ Treats: benefit:collaterals, benefit:tendon / ligament, arthritis:shoulder:scapulohumeral periarthritis, immobility:neck:sprain

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 遺尿 (yí niào)

🎯 Location: On the bottom of the foot, at the midpoint of the interpharangeal transverse crease..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: enuresis, benefit:kidney

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 浮郄特小穴 (fú qiè tè xiǎo xué)

🎯 Location: On the lateral aspect of the foot, directly below the tip of the external malleolus, at the junction of the red and white skin..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: damp, benefit:spleen, enteritis

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 失眠 (shī mián)

🎯 Location: On the bottom of the foot, at the crossing of the perpendicular line from the tip of the external malleolus and the midline of the foot bottom.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: insomnia, calm:mind

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 上去 (shàng qù)

🎯 Location: On the posterior border of the thigh, 3 thumb widths directly above the ququan (lr8).

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: benefit:qi, benefit:yang, benefit:blood, thromboangitis obliterans

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 子宮颈 (zǐ gōng jǐng)

🎯 Location: On the leg, 3 thumb widths above the tip of the internal malleolus, one finger breadth prior to the tendon the calcancus, slightly posterior to the sanyinjiao (sp6).

⚠️ Cautions: Contraindicated during pregnancy.

🛡️ Treats: heat, damp, cervical ectropion:cervical erosion

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 內碼點 (nèi mǎ diǎn)

🎯 Location: On the inside of the lower leg, 7 thumb widths above the internal malleolus and 0.5 thumb widths from posterior edge of the tibia..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: pain:post-operative

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 里內庭 (lǐ nèi tíng)

🎯 Location: On the foot palm, in the depression the anterior to the second and third metatarsophalaneal joint.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: diarrhoea, urticaria, pain:toothache, neuralgia:trigeminal, tonsillitis

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 四強 (sì qiáng)

🎯 Location: 4.5 thumb widths superior to the centre of the upper patellar border..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: paralysis, atrophy:leg:thigh:quadriceps femoris